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" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "

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" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "

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" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "

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" In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. "

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